6 Bizarre Things Your Brain Does While You Sleep
Your Dreams Are Completely Bonkers — On Purpose
Why do your dreams make absolutely no sense? Why is your childhood pet giving you a driving lesson in a submarine? The bizarreness is actually a feature, not a bug. During REM sleep, your brain activity changes in ways that produce vivid, emotional, and wildly illogical storylines. The part of your brain that usually filters out nonsense is temporarily off duty, so your mind is free to go absolutely anywhere — and it does. Those crazy dreams aren’t a glitch. They’re your brain running its own private, unrated film festival.
